Re: [Qemu-devel] virtual FTP/WebDAV (was: windows xp under pclinuxos 2005)

[Andrew Barr <andrew.james.barr@gmail.com>]

On Mon, 2006-08-21 at 20:17 +0200, Jan Marten Simons wrote:
> Hi Rene,
> 
> Your HowTo is quite nice and might be enough for most users, but it 
> depends on modifying the host-system, which needs admin/root privileges. 
> An internal virtual FTP server which serves a directory of the host 
> might be slower, but it would not need any changes on the host side. 
> (Think about portable OS in qemu on USB/Flash-Media, which could easily 
> export e.g. C:\Xchange or ~/xchange into a virtual FTP/WebDAV, which can 
> be used for fileexchange from allmost any guest.) That way you can build 
> a very portable sandbox, which can be run from various host systems.

Hi,

is there any reason SMB won't work for your needs? (command line option
-smb <dir>)

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